It is increasingly becoming a slog for SEOs to find relevant, high PR inbound links. It seems to me that every month, directories have either closed down or require a reciprocal.

It now takes hours to find quality links you haven’t submitted your site to before, only to find that dreaded phrase ‘where have you placed our link on your site?’. Instead of finding a way around the Jagger update, it appears that ever more sites are insisting on outdated practices.

So, we have come up with a new set of rules for ourselves and our clients, involving blogging. We noticed how well our blogs were performing on MSN, with no registration whatsoever, some of them completely dominating the search. Next, we realised that many blog directories with exceptionally high PR values were included in the search. Lately we have further realised that none of the blogs we set up on blogger.com have been submitted to the blog directories. This is about to change…

The stages we have identified include the following:

1. Register the blog on blogger.com and xanga.com using the keyword as the blog url and title, then write copy (not site copy) around the key phrase without stuffing. Link the blog to other blogs in the same keyword range and link into the site.

2. Submit all the blogs to high PR blog directories (there are many) and build up the PR values of the blogs.

3. Set up an XML file in the form of an RSS feed, if you haven’t got one already, to include all the pages of the site. Submit the feed URL to high PR RSS feed directories (again, there are many).

4. Write content-rich articles to high PR (5+) and make sure there is a link back to the website.

Link building

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